Though my personal life–moving, dealing with the varied annoyances of first-time home ownership, trying to find minutes here and there for writing–hasn’t reflected it, over the past weeks I’ve been appearing one way or another in some newspapers–always a pleasure when your book has passed that month-and-a-half post-publication window, after which it usually disappears. Toward [...]

Actually, it was yesterday that the Otto Penzler anthology, Agents of Treachery, was released in the US, and I’d advise everyone interested in espionage fiction to give it a good hard look. The prepub reviews have been uniformly terrific (all starred reviews), and The Boston Globe has just chimed in very favorably. And how could [...]

The New York Times does me good Over the last week or so, The Nearest Exit has gotten some great attention from the NYT. Back on Sunday the 23rd, Joshua Hammer’s “Milo’s People” looked at the book saying that it “reprises the themes of The Tourist, with even more success”–nice words, and it only gets [...]

Tourism Touring As usual, I’m behind the curve on posting what’s going on around here. I’ve spent the last week in Serbia, where network connections are not always as they might be, and the last couple days have been spent trying to leave Europe, despite a certain Icelandic volcano’s best efforts to thwart my plans. [...]

There’s been that noticeable Nomad silence lately, and for my part I can pin it on a variety of things: reading papers emailed in by my diligent Leipzig students, traveling to London to meet with the wonderful crew at Corvus (my new UK publisher), dealing with the dirty details of buying and starting renovation on [...]

A little while ago, Kate Horsley over at the relaunched Crimeculture asked me and Kevin to do a two-way interview for the site. Because of our schedules, it took a while, but proved to be a fun and interesting experience, delving into the writing process, themes, receiving fan letters from hit men, not receiving them [...]

Just a quick post for some good news–the paperback of The Tourist is selling quite nicely in the US, thank you. For the week ending January 21, it reached #30 on the IndieBound list of bestselling trade paperbacks at independent bookstores across the US. The next week, ending January 28, it moved up to #24. That’s [...]

  In about ten minutes I’m going to get a call from New York, where I’ll be talking live and nationwide on WNYC’s The Takeaway about the collision between the Dubai assassination and spy fiction… *RING!*   Later: Well, it happened–a 4-minute window that went by in about 40 nanoseconds. Celeste Headlee did a great job, but [...]

Because this sort of thing is about all the TV I ever watch these days. And just because.

Here’s a band called Pepe Mula, fronted by one of my students, Daviel, who’s also a budding director–in fact, he directed the space epic below. I’ll bet you never thought Leipzig looked like this…tres chic! I mean, Toll!

Tomorrow marks the paperback release of The Tourist (Indie, Amazon, B&N), something I’m really looking forward to. The hardback–as I giggled about here–reached #19 on the New York Times list, and Minotaur is putting its best foot forward to try and get us on the paperback list. What to do? Every writer wonders this when release date approaches, [...]

As I mentioned before, the paperback of The Tourist (Indie, Amazon, B&N) will be released soon–on Tuesday the 16th, in fact. Back when it came out in hardback, I wondered what kind of extra material I might put up to accompany the book. In this case, an obvious proposition came to me–put together a soundtrack. [...]

As I discussed before, I jumped into the whole e-book thing by purchasing a Kindle. It’s been fun owning the thing, and I’ve grown used to the interface, reading along at the same pace I would with a book. It’s particularly useful when reading manuscripts–I’ve got a potential-blurb novel on it now. I’ve bought a [...]

Back in October, as a gift-to-myself for getting the Dagger nomination, I bought a spankin’ new Amazon Kindle. Being a sucker for slick gadgets, I’d had a hankering for one for a while, but living in Europe made it useless until the international version came out. So I pulled out my credit card, choked my [...]

I’ve been out of touch for a hella long time now, up in Leipzig too full of teaching (much more time-consuming than some may have you believe–particularly if you’re raising a 2-year-old at the same time) to write anything here, much less write a word of my next novel. Now, though, in Budapest for the [...]